5, Wharf Street

No. 5 Wharf Street is an early to mid-18th century town house, designed in the style of James Clarke of Newbury, a master builder. The building stands three storeys high and features five windows. It is constructed of red brick and has a dentil eaves cornice. The façade includes a parapet with pilasters on the corners and a central round-arched recess, along with a plain plinth and floor bands. The entrance is marked by an early 19th-century wooden doorcase that has reeded pilasters and short sections of frieze supporting a projecting cornice, with a panelled door accessed by steps. Inside, there is a well-preserved panelled entrance hall with fluted pilasters, and a staircase that boasts carved brackets, a moulded handrail, and turned balusters. The upper rooms retain old panelling. In the late 18th-century wing at the rear, the first-floor room features a fine Corinthian Venetian window, two Adam-style doorways, and a moulded plaster frieze.